Nice Aussiedj, I was just about to post another part in the series when my page messed up and I had to refresh it and lost all of my work, but what do you know, you had just wrote the next part for me! Lol!
Defense Part 1 (Misconception Part 1)
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Hi Everyone!
The Learning Center is creating a new series on Defense!
Last Week, DooDallyDaddy created an "Introduction to Defense" which is really instructive. If you have not gone and seen that, I suggest you go and have a look at it because some of the things I am going to be talking about are based on what he said http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/introduction-to-defense?lc=1#last_comment
DooDallyDaddy
So, in this series, 1 by 1, we will be showing examples based on his tips in further detail. So, that forum is the foundation of this series.
So in this lesson, we will talk about his first Misconception, which was "Defense is always passive" and yes Defense is not always passive. Lets look at this in further detail.
So, recently, IM Moulthun Ly gave a lecture to some students about Defense. A lot of this series will be based on his lecture as well.
1 of the things he said was "There are 2 Types Of Defense"
1. Passive Defense
2. Active Defense
IM Moulthun Ly
But, he said you should always try to use Active Defense. There are only 2 exceptions why you should use Passive Defense:
1.Material Up (1 Pawn is not enough, it needs to be more than that)
2.Long Term Advantage A long term advantage is (1. Bishop Pair 2. Outpost 3. Strategical Oppositional advantage (Pawn structure, Space advantage)
This game that he showed us for Active Defense was very instructive. Most of you should know it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ix69sCFahw
8.05 lol
Yeah, he missed mate in 1. I watched this years ago over and over again not realising how instructive the first half of the game was.
A crucial point in the game
So, go back and have a look. There are 3 Tips in Defending that Moulthun explained:
1.Get rid of their bishop If your opponent loses a bishop in the attack, it slows it down (17... Nxe5)
2.Close down lines The more lines you close down, the harder it is to attack (20..h5)
3.Counter attack Now that you have followed those other 2 steps, you now need to punish that they have attacked. They will most likely have weak squares, so you can attack them
It is as easy as that. That game was a perfect example for Active Defense
Passive Defense of course is different
So, to sum up this lesson, we proved DooDallyDaddys Misconception Tip 1 correct. Passive Defense is not the only Defense, there is also active Defense, which works better.
The Learning Center looks forward to seeing you next time for more examining of DooDallyDaddy's Tips in Defense.
See you Next time!